Open Word: Readings and Ideas
Louise Bernice Halfe
Program, P.2392
- Identifier
- P.2392
- Type
- Literary readings
- Category
- Literary
- Date
- September 27, 2016
- Description
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Giving a haunting picture of Canada’s residential school legacy, poet Louise Bernice Halfe will read from her collection, Burning in this Midnight Dream, at Open Space, the University of Victoria, and the Victoria Festival of Authors. Released in spring of 2016, Burning in this Midnight Dream was written as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission unfolded. Halfe’s sometimes fierce, sometimes tender voice opens a window through which we can see ways colonial violence moves through families, communities, and lives.
Open Space welcomes Halfe as a part of its Open Word: Readings and Ideas literary series, in partnership with the University of Victoria Department of Writing. This visit is also sponsored by the Victoria Festival of Authors. Halfe will read at the Victoria of Festival of Authors on Friday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Victoria City Hall (1 Centennial Square). She will then present a master class on Saturday, September 24 from 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at the Belfry Theatre (1291 Gladstone Avenue). On Monday, September 26, she will read from Burning in this Midnight Dream at the University of Victoria at 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Building in Room 203. At Open Space on Tuesday, September 27 at 7:30 p.m., Halfe will participate in an interview with Janet Rogers.